Author Topic: Bloom (and other computer experts)... help! (Read 1447 times)

DewSamurai · « **Reply #15 on:** January 03, 2002, 02:02:00 PM »

Myself & a squadmate had similar problems which turned out to be CPU problems (both were Athlons). I had a 750Mhz Duron that I knew to be good. Swapped the Athlon with the known good Duron, and the system booted just fine.

If you have another CPU swap it with the Athlon, and give it a try.

Good Luck.

Samurai

qts · « **Reply #16 on:** January 03, 2002, 02:49:00 PM »

Have you tried powering up the motherboard outside the case?

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2002, 04:02:00 PM »

Frost, weazel, and qts have it.

I finally ripped the motherboard out of the case and jumpered the power on... and voila, the fans started spinning, and the system POSTed successfully. Clearly it's the case causing a short with the motherboard. No amount of finessing could get this motherboard to work with this case (an InWin mid-tower), so the case got the heave ho. Another, older case seems to work so far... I was able to mount and power up the motherboard in it. I haven't attempted anything beyond that, but it appears that this problem, at least, is licked.

Thanks for the help, everyone!

-- Todd/Leviathn

bloom25 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 03, 2002, 05:05:00 PM »

You need to be careful running the board on it's anti-static bag. Some of those bags ARE electrically conductive, thus you can short out your board.

If you are having problems getting it to run in the case I should mention that the screw hole nearest to the AGP slot on some boards is used for a ground wire. Try putting one of the plastic spacers into this hole rather than the metal standoffs. If that doesn't work, examine the board itself to see if any of the holes have traces that run to them and switch them to plastic. I've also seen where a part of the case or an extra metal spacer has shorted out the board.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2002, 05:53:00 PM »

Well by definition, anything antistatic is conductive lol.. Usually the conductivity is in the MOhm range though so it's not a practical problem. I wouldn't run hot instruments on the aluminium coated bags tho.